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Guest Post: Facebook Video Tips from Non-Profit Marketers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Is Facebook Live or posting videos part of your nonprofit’s strategy for 2018? Using a tool like Animato can make it easy for your nonprofit to create DYI videos, but to be successful you need to develop a strategy and use compelling storytelling. Video is a medium uniquely suited to do just that.”.

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How Text Messaging Has Revolutionized Giving

BoardAssist

All attendees, participants and donors are thanked via text with a link to a personalized video; texting is a quick and easy way to thank donors for their contribution. Texting services also allow you to monitor the donation history of your donors and to send relevant messages based on their demographics and preferences.

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Meet Connie Reece: Using Social Media to Strike Back At Ike

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Based on Austin, Texas, I caught up with Connie to find how she is using Social Media raise money for victims of Hurricane Ike and other recent social media fundraising causes. Docublogger video. A few days later Hurricane Ike slammed into Texas and the remainder of the HAM-up events had to be postponed. Tell me about you.

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Gift the Gift of Charity: Make A Contribution to any of these Fabulous Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Fellows make use of blogging, social networking, photo and video sharing tools to build communities of support for their host organizations so donors can follow their work and directly share in the accomplishments. Watch this engaging video and then go make a contribution. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills.

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Understanding the Rage-Donation: How to Engage Beyond the Episodic Gift

Connection Cafe

The History of Episodic Giving. When there was a flood, hurricane, or other natural disaster, people made a conscious decision to give to causes that were there to help others in need. The combination of viral videos, social media, and mass media coverage fueled a tremendous amount of giving in short period of time.

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Steve Bridger

Monday, October 27, 2008 at 11:27 am | Permalink gicela wrote: David Katz’s photographs will certainly make the history books. When afterwilma debuted, I like many others felt an affinity to the people afflicted by the hurricane. We did start a group hurricane blog after Wilma, thankfully we have not put it to good use.

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